Seeing and hearing Ed Davey MP on television and radio this morning reminded me that the portfolios carried by modern day junior Ministers in Government are impossibly large. There he was talking for the Government on its plans for the post office network and the levels of investment to be made and there I am wondering how he manages to spread his time between such a spread of key roles.
His job title of Minister for Employment Relations, Consumers and Postal Affairs perhaps makes my point. Ed Davey is a very able and very likable man and I have had the pleasure of meeting with him several times. He performed admirably this morning in articulating the Government case. Similarly when he was on 'Question Time' recently he was clearly able to contribute his personal, his LibDem Party's and the Government's position robustly on a range of topics including his views on the London Mayor' interventions in the housing benefits debate.
My point is that today's consumers in our UK society deserve and should demand that any Government has a 'Consumer Minister' with a portfolio that only includes them and provides a focal point for and across Government, is an advocate for consumers in Whitehall and Westminster and is not otherwise having to spread him or herself so thinly, albeit so ably, over such a broad political and subject canvas. Consumers are the lifeblood of our economy and they deserve such bespoke attention.
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